I love this time of year. Spring rolls in, the weather’s great, and most importantly, the NCAA basketball tournament is gearing up. My University of Texas Longhorns are a #2 seed, and I’m very hopeful that they’ll get a chance to play in the Final Four in San Antonio, an hour from Austin. Times like this make me thankful we have a sports bar in the building.

But enough reminiscing. It’s on to the personal injury news. And as always, we’ll start with tort reform……

Sheila Scheuerman at TortsProf has a look at SorryWorks. Along the same lines, Eric Turkewitz has an interesting post on Why Patients Call Lawyers. Number 1 on the list is that patients feel betrayed because the docs won’t level with them. We’ve also written on this before.

The National Association of Manufacturers looks at the Eliot Spitzer scandal’s affect on tort reform. As a bonus, it contains a cite to Turkewitz’s blog.

And speaking of appellate courts, the Texas Supreme Court backlog of cases has been in the news this week. The Dallas Morning News Trail Blazers blog covered the story. As did Austin’s KVUE. (Thanks to the good folks at Texas Watch for the tip to the DMN story.)

For all of us that were a year into a case and asking, “what were we thinking?” John Day has a post on case selection.

Anne Reed has another good post that looks at the use of jury questionnaires. Anne’s blog is outstanding. If you try cases and don’t read it regularly, then you are doing you and your clients a disservice.